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472| 200–700 | Central America [statistics and demography] | The Zapotec site of Monte Albán in Central America is at its peak in this period. It may have had 30,000 or more inhabitants. It is the centre of a complex of public buildings, temples, and dwellings that cover 40 sq km/15 sq mi. | | 400–500 | India [chess] | Shaturanga (or chaturanga), ‘the army game’, an ancestor of chess through the Persian game of shatranj (or chatrang), evolves in the Indus Valley on the Indian subcontinent. | | c. 460–c. 477 | India [Buddhism] | Most of the 30 caves at Ajanta in Central India are completed during this time. Cut into the volcanic rock and elaborately carved and painted, they form the richest surviving Buddhist complex in India. | | 472 | Western Roman Empire, Italy [barbarian invasions of Rome (378–476)] | The Western Roman Empire enters a period of unrest beginning when the Visigoth Ricimer captures Rome and kills the Western Roman emperor Anthemius. He appoints Olybrius his successor. When Ricimer dies shortly thereafter, Gundobad, king of the Burgundians, takes control of the western armies. Olybrius then dies, leaving the Western Roman Empire without an emperor. |
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